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Poem by Vachel Lindsay


The Little Turtle


A Recitation for Martha Wakefield, Three Years Old


There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.

He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.

He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn’t catch me.



Vachel Lindsay


Vachel Lindsay's other poems:
  1. Upon Returning to the Country Road
  2. Sweet Briars of the Stairways
  3. The Haughty Snail-King
  4. The Spice-Tree
  5. The Master of the Dance


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